I don't know the answer to reliability issues with touch screen thermostats. I have a 4 zone AC/heating system with 4 thermostats. One of them failed in the first month. After that replacement, there have been no problems (in service 2 years). The new digital thermstats are superior to the old style mercury switch thermostats. The setting is more accurate and they have virtually zero headband, meaning that the temperature is held dead on, if your ac/heat system is in good shape and properly designed.
I highly recommend the programmable thermostat. The one you showed (with the switches) looked like a pure manual setup. I would not bother with it.
As to having to press a button to light up, that is a usually a configuration option. I set mine to have a dim continuous backlight so I can find it in the dark. When I touch it, it gets full brightness. The dim setting is not distracting in a dark bedroom.
Bob
On Jun 4, 2015, at 5:44 PM, subprong subprong@gmail.com [DoIt_Yourself] <DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com> wrote:Looks like a downside on this is that in order to activate the backlight, you must press and activate any control on the display. Hence, you'd need to push the arrow up a degree in order to check the actual temperature and then push the arrow back down to keep it at your desired temp.
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